GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 603*

Short Title:  Women At Risk Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Metcalf, Carter; and Garwood.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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March 29, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO SUPPORT AND EXPAND THE WOMEN AT RISK PROGRAM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year to be allocated to the Western Carolinians for Criminal Justice to support the Women At Risk Program, a community-based treatment program serving female offenders and their families.  These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$150,000 for the Women At Risk Program in Buncombe County.
(2)	$50,000 for expansion of the Women At Risk Program.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.